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The Biosphere Rules
Operations strategy Magazine ArticleNature employs production processes that are surprisingly efficient, environmentally sound—and widely imitable. -
The Biases That Keep Good R&D Projects from Getting Funded
Innovation & Leadership ResearchAnd how to overcome them, according to a new study. -
Research: Legal Marijuana and Gay Marriage Have Been Good for U.S. Innovation
Global Business Digital ArticleSocially liberal policies resulted in more and better patents. -
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
Incubators Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
It’s Time to Stop Treating R&D as a Discretionary Expenditure
Innovation Digital ArticleFor digital companies, it’s an essential part of operations. -
Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D Puzzles
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleYour problem solvers could not only be out in the wider world, but also in the wide reaches of your own organization. -
Organizing for High-Tech Marketing
IT management Magazine ArticleFor many established companies, becoming more effective marketers is a matter of fine tuning—increasing expenditures on promotion and advertising or reorganizing the sales force. For high-technology companies, becoming effective marketers is often a matter of starting from scratch. Such companies typically derive their initial strength from the innovations provided by the research and development function. […] -
"Special Forces" Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency arguably has the longest-standing track record of radical invention in history. Over the past... -
The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs
Organizational Development ResearchInnovation requires market demand. -
Managing Innovation in the Information Age
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe continued vitality of the most successful U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies in the face of accelerating scientific and technological change... -
How Augmented Reality Will Make Surgery Safer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleNo more looking away from the patient to gather data. -
Can You Get Better at Research?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIt's pretty widely accepted that people's innate intelligence doesn't change much. Youth, health, and a positive environment can help people make better... -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategic planning Digital ArticleYou don’t need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Smart Product Design
Innovation Magazine ArticleEven more than technical expertise, it’s the ability to connect the dots that drives innovative product design, says Dan Williams, who is widely known for the work he did on mobile phones when he was Motorola’s design director. Now, as the creative director for the design and innovation firm TZ Limited, Williams has turned his […] -
A Pointed Lesson About Product Features
Product development Magazine ArticleConsumers trust companies to tell them what to look for in a product or service: the thread count in sheets, the BTU rating for air conditioners, the cocoa butter content of premium chocolate. Companies, for their part, rarely question industry wisdom about where to direct R&D dollars to improve quality. What most influences a product’s […] -
How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThree strategies that work. -
Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMarketing executives focus too much on ever-narrower demographic segments and ever-more-trivial product extensions. They should find out, instead, what jobs consumers need to get done. Those jobs will point the way to purposeful products—and genuine innovation. -
Quantum Computing for Business Leaders
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleQuantum computers can solve problems exponentially faster than classical computers can. They will bring about two huge changes: an end to our current... -
How to Spot a Technological Winner
IT management Magazine ArticleExamples abound of companies either missing the opportunity of their lifetimes or pouring their resources into projects that turn out to be losers. But how can a general manager tell in advance whether he will have a Xerox machine or an Edsel? These authors present a general framework by which managers can assess the strategic […] -
Using AI to Understand What Causes Diseases
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleMedicine needs to broaden its application of algorithms.
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Armscor: Life After Apartheid?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details After taking office, South Africa's new president, Nelson Mandela, must decide whether to dismantle or support Armscor, South Africa's state-owned arms... -
Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In the over 20 years since Hewlett-Packard (HP) set up a manufacturing site in Singapore to produce calculators, HP has invested managerial talent and... -
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten... -
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making... -
BP's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (B): Driving Open Innovation through an Advocate Team
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement case for KEL366. -
The Pharmaceutical Industry in 2005
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The entire pharmaceutical industry faced uncertain times in 2005. Many of the industry's most pressing issues-patent expirations, new drug pipeline development,... -
CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was... -
R&D Management at Universal Luxury Group - Perfumes and Cosmetics Division (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the challenges faced by the cosmetics division of a large corporation when determining the set of products to develop in 2004. The... -
Tengion: Bringing Regenerative Medicine to Life
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Tengion is a young biotech company that is at the frontier of regenerative medicine; a nascent field that seeks to promote the creation of new cells and... -
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals was a fast-growing biotechnology company. Its leadership team was divided over whether to keep R&D organized in functional... -
MorphoSys AG: The Evolution of a Biotechnology Business Model
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In the biotech world, the 18-year-old Munich-based company MorphoSys was a rarity: it was profitable. The company achieved this profitability not by developing... -
The Service Activity Sequence in Healthcare
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Improvement in service operations is a key element in Health Care. Starting from the frame of reference provided by the Service Activity Sequence (SAS)[... -
ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (A): Technological and Financial Innovation
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details To develop the next generation of risky products, ALZA, a mature and profitable biotechnology firm specializing in drug delivery systems, must raise $40... -
Nokia Telecommunications: Redesign of International Logistics
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Nokia faces the challenge of implementing the global network model: global R&D and production networks for global learning and control combined with local... -
Columbus Tubing: Steel is Real
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Columbus Tubing must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated... -
Lupin: Discovery Research
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Lupin, an India-based pharma firm, started its Novel Drug Discovery and Development (NDDD) division in 2010. In 2018, the division licensed MALT1 inhibitors... -
Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
The Universalization of L Oreal
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2010, half of the world's cosmetics sales came from the so-called emerging markets for the first time; L'Oréal opened three new subsidiaries, in Egypt,... -
Bayer Crop Science
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In mid-2019, a year after German conglomerate Bayer Group closed its acquisition of U.S.-based seeds giant Monsanto, the leadership of Bayer's Crop Science... -
Agricultural Innovation and Sustainability in the Netherlands
Management Case Study8.95View Details This note describes some of the most significant agricultural innovations in the Netherlands, their drivers, environmental performance implications, some...
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The Biosphere Rules
Operations strategy Magazine ArticleNature employs production processes that are surprisingly efficient, environmentally sound—and widely imitable. -
The Biases That Keep Good R&D Projects from Getting Funded
Innovation & Leadership ResearchAnd how to overcome them, according to a new study. -
Research: Legal Marijuana and Gay Marriage Have Been Good for U.S. Innovation
Global Business Digital ArticleSocially liberal policies resulted in more and better patents. -
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
Incubators Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
Mining Underground Innovation
Management Digital ArticleR&D staff members often proactively pursue unofficial innovation projects, driven by the desire to effect internal change, meet a personal need, or explore... -
Armscor: Life After Apartheid?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details After taking office, South Africa's new president, Nelson Mandela, must decide whether to dismantle or support Armscor, South Africa's state-owned arms... -
It’s Time to Stop Treating R&D as a Discretionary Expenditure
Innovation Digital ArticleFor digital companies, it’s an essential part of operations. -
Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D Puzzles
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleYour problem solvers could not only be out in the wider world, but also in the wide reaches of your own organization. -
Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In the over 20 years since Hewlett-Packard (HP) set up a manufacturing site in Singapore to produce calculators, HP has invested managerial talent and... -
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten...